Its worthwhile how it is, please read reviews and benchmarks there are tons out there already just released few hours ago it outperforming 780. For $400 you can't complain, AMD is forcing NVIDIA to price cut, and if you're crying about that, I feel sorry for you.

Its worthwhile how it is, please read reviews and benchmarks there are tons out there already just released few hours ago it outperforming 780. For $400 you can't complain, AMD is forcing NVIDIA to price cut, and if you're crying about that, I feel sorry for you.

Realists understand that tdp, temperature and noise are important in a video card. There are plenty of AMD cards that are a much better value at the moment than a reference volcano.

Realists understand that tdp, temperature and noise are important in a video card. There are plenty of AMD cards that are a much better value at the moment than a reference volcano.

Realist? You mean a computer grease monkey who have nothing better to do but overclock a card for every inch of its life? In the real world people buy a graphic card slap it in and forget about it. And for the real world point of view the r9 290 makes 780 and 290x non-existent because of its price performance ratio.

Realist? You mean a computer grease monkey who have nothing better to do but overclock a card for every inch of its life? In the real world people buy a graphic card slap it in and forget about it. And for the real world point of view the r9 290 makes 780 and 290x non-existent because of its price performance ratio.

But taking your same situation, people in the real world want a card they don't have to monitor. You would have to watch this thing like a hawk, on top of probably having to change the fan profile with a 3rd party program to keep it from overheating in your real world computer with 2 fans and horrible cooling.

Realist? You mean a computer grease monkey who have nothing better to do but overclock a card for every inch of its life? In the real world people buy a graphic card slap it in and forget about it. And for the real world point of view the r9 290 makes 780 and 290x non-existent because of its price performance ratio.

Those people that buy a video card and slap it in are going to be angry about how loud it is and that they might need a bigger PSU to support it. They could also be angry at how much hotter the GPU gets.

But taking your same situation, people in the real world want a card they don't have to monitor. You would have to watch this thing like a hawk, on top of probably having to change the fan profile with a 3rd party program to keep it from overheating in your real world computer with 2 fans and horrible cooling.

If you're not going crazy on OC'ing you don't need to monitor anything, the thing is made to handle 90C+ for normal usage...